crow wrote:I don't think it's anything. It's as fake and contrived and selfish and shortsighted as just about everything else that people do.
Charity isn't the problem. People are the problem. They'd do a lot better being charitable towards the natural environment, and making do with far, far less.

but you're a person too.You can be selfish, shortsighted and even fake sometimes.
You can also genuinely care about something.How can you say these people don't really care?You can't know the depths of their soul or the complexity of their mind.So why don't you just take their word for it instead of looking for/assuming the worst in people.

No. I can not be selfish, shortsighted, or fake. Ever. Which is why I can say the things I say.
I know myself completely, which also enables me to know others.
I know what people are like, what they do, and why they do what they do.
These things don't happen to agree with your own fantasies, for the simple reason you don't know what I know.
But I would bet that you know I'm right, deep down. It has that ring of truth to it.
It's just not the sort of thing you want to be true.

Perhaps what you say does ring true for a few people, but not all, and I don't think I'm being overly optimistic in this instance.
You don't and can't know why everyone does what they do.You're just being illogical now.
and honestly if you're gonna keep up this whole "all knowing" and "holier then thou" act, I don't see a point in continuing this discussion/debate (whatever you wanna call it).

People spend a great deal of their time assigning blame to each other. It's almost their defining trait.
I had two cats, once, who seemed to blame each other, in turns. It was very amusing to see, in cats.
It's not remotely amusing though, to see people doing it.

Well, like so many other things that people do, blaming is a display where none is needed.
It's one thing to know who is at fault, and why, but another thing entirely, to make a big show of it.
It's the justice and compensation culture I guess. "I was wronged, and so now I want big bucks from the guy that did it"